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CHICAGO, ILL. 


PUBLISHED QUARTERLY; ENTERED AT CHIOAGO AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER 


Series | JUNE, 1913 No. 31 


WHAT A FEW OF THE 15000 MEMBERS SAY: 


"I am delighted with the clear and concise manner of treating 
the many subjects—a child could understand them. What a blessing 
it would be if every young housekeeper could begin with this liberal 
education. 

"In twenty-three years of housekeeping I have learned much in 
the school of experience, but expect to learn a great deal more before 
I finish this library of knowledge. é 

"I realize how much time and energy I might have saved had 
this golden opportunity been offered to me, say, 25 years ago; and 
how many times the cost of the course might have been saved thereby 
each year. Itis a shame that anyone should have to plod the old 
way of experience with such help as this at hand and I shall do all in 
my power to bring the School to the notice of my friends. ss 

"T enclose check for full amount of my tuition and with it send 
heartiest good wishes for the success of this grand work." 

Mrs. MABLE C. WYAND, Aurora, Ind. 


"] cannot commend your work too highly—as I wrote one of my. 
school friends the other day. I have found the course of the School 
of more practical benefit to me than any of my University courses. 
It is a constant help and inspiration. It has not only returned one 
hundred per cent every year on the amount invested, but has yielded 
what cannot be estimated in dollars and cents—an added interest and 
joy in home-making as a profession. | shall never cease to be thankful 
that I had this help at the beginning of my housekeeping experience." 

Mrs. DAVID C, COOK, Jr., Elgin, Ill. ‘* 


"Although I have not half completed the Course I find that my 
old enthusiasm—the enthusiasm of a young housewife, which, alas, ts 
so soon deadened by the dull, because unscientific, routine of daily 
tasks—has been aroused to such a degree that my middle-age fervor 
far outshines that of my early married life. 

"I would that | could infuse into the women I know the spirit I 
have caught from your instructors." 

Mrs. EMMA BREWSTER GUILLON, Pasadena, Calif. 


"The Course is invaluable. If I only had it when I began te 
keep house two years ago, | should have been saved many bitter mis- 
takes, many wasted hours and many, many dollars. It has made me 
begin housekeeping over again on a new basis, already, and yet I have 
only begun to mine its treasures." 

Mrs. JAY HOWARD COOK, Duluth, Minn. 


"I for one appreciate your efforts to make the daily labors of 
the busy housewife more interesting and easy." 
Mrs. I. S. RAYMOND, Pres. Illinois Domestic Science Asso., Sidney, Ill. 


"My cook has been quite as much interested in the lessons as I 
have. Ofcourse she did not know that she was hearing anything 
‘out of a book’; but | have taken pains to impart to herin very simple 
language the facts that I have learned and I find that she not only 
understood but profited by them. My laundress was especially inter- 
ested in the pictures of the fibers of different textiles and said that 
was the first time in her life that she understood why she must not 


wring woolens." 
Mrs. O. N. CAMMANN, Elizabeth, N. J. 


"] want to express my appreciation and gratitude for all that the 
Course has done for me in helping me to care for my children. It 
has saved me hours of anxious care, besides many dollars in money." 

Mrs. E. W. GOULD, Pacuca, Mexico. 


"{ think that if every wife, mother or housekeeper—whoever 
has charge of a home—could take the full Course, it would do much 
more towards stamping out disease and do more towards educating 
and uplifting humanity than all the hospitals and all the public libraries 
that have ever been given for that purpose." 

Mrs. W. H. ELDREDGE, Cherry Valley, N. Y. 


"TP think your School is doing a magnificent work.. What is 
more needed the world over than improved conditions in the home?® 
Miss LIZZIE V. COLES, Montreal, Canada. 


"Il am finding the Course very profitable. The lessons have 
helped me very much and seemed to put new meaning into so many 
things often considered drudgery." 

Mrs. GORDON WOODBURY, Manchester, N. H. 


"I find the Course most interesting. Household problems might 
more readily be solved, if the average housekeeper would wake up 
to her own shortcomings. My lessons so far have been play instead 
of work, as I am so thoroughly interested in them—lI do so enjoy 


them." : 
Miss ELLEN MARSHALL RUGG, Washington, D. C. 


"] think the work of this School very important. It reaches the 
mothers, and without their sympathy and co-operation the work of the 
school-room seems to avail little. It is not difficult to imterest the 
young people, but if their lessons are not carried out in the home, 
they are of little practical value." 

Miss LYDIA HARRIS (Teacher Domestic Science), Dunlap, Ill. 


"The lessons are so excellent and so exactly what every up-to- 


date home-maker needs." 
Mrs. A. C. FULLER, Belmont, Mass. 


"] want to say that I found the Course instructive, helpful and 
enjoyable. The subjects have aroused my enthusiasm very strongly 
and the Course has been the means of breadth and culture." 

Mrs. J. W. TITCOMB, Fall River, Mass. 


"If I could I would persuade every bride I know to study the 
Course; they would save themselves from being jokes to their 
friends. I have found the Course most helpful and interesting and I| 
feel I never before received so much for any money expended." 

Miss ELIZABETH LITER, Johnston, Pa. 


"T never had the least inclination to know how to cook—it may 
be because of lack of training, but since becoming a student of the 
A. S. H. E. Iam finding it much move interesting." 

Mrs. ELIZABETH McARTHUR, Kingston, Ont. 


"T wish all housewives could have the benefit and encourages 
ment they bring. They certainly fill al ng-felt want in my case—I 
learn so much from every lesson." 

Mrs. C. L. GRIDLEY, Waterloo, N. Y. 


"The more I study the little lesson books, the more I like them. 

The lessons have been such a help tome. What a delight house- 

work would be to all women if they would go about it intelligently." 
Mrs. W. E. FORESMAN, Lewiston, Idaho. 


"l am greatly pleased with the lessons, and more so with the 
field for study they have opened for me. I must say I never found 
any study so intensely interesting." 

Miss LOVINIA VANDERPOOL, Mukwonago, Wis. 


"] am very much pleased with the Course and feel that I possess 
a mine of information from which I would not part for many times 


the sum I paid." 
Mrs. J. M. RICHEL, Bergen, N. Y. 


"I wish every wife, mother and home-maker could and would 
aave the advantage of this course of study. Scarcely an hour passes 
in the day when the practical importance of the lessons is not brought 


to my mind." 
Mrs. LYDIA K. La BAUME, Roanoke, Va. 


"] never realized that housekeeping could be made so interest- 
ing until I began these lessons. | always ‘hated’ it and only took up 
this course to please my father. Now I am ever reading and study- 
ing. The subjects are so interesting that it seems when one begins, it 
is impossible to stop. The lessons are not a task to me, but a never- 
ending source of pleasure." 

Miss CLARA EDNA MOWERY, Orange, N. J. 


"T always recommend your Course, it is so perfectly adapted 
for home and club study. We must be affiliated with an institution 
which can help us carry on our work and I feel that we owe a great 
debt to this splendid School for its co-operation with our Department." 


Mrs. OLAF N. GULDLIN, Chairman Home Economics Department, 
General Federation of Women’s Clubs, Fort Wayne, Ind. 


WHAT SOME OF THE INSTRUCTORS SAY: 


"] can certainly say that I have never done more interesting or 
encouraging work and that the fine work of the School grows upon 
me all the time. Whereas | accepted the offer somewhat hesitat- 
ingly because of my aversion of the methods of correspondence 
schools in general, I feel that this is to be highly commended as of a 
scholarly and high order which I feel it an honor to be associated in. 

"I do enjoy the work thoroughly and the kind responses from so 
many are very encouraging. I wish I might give ali my time to the 
work of the School, I have come to be so thoroughly in sympathy 


with it and its opportunities are so apparent." 
Professor BERTHA M. TERRILL, University of Vermont. 


"Certainly my students, almost without exception, have taken 
pains to say how much they wished all mothers could take the course. 
"T really love the work for I find it brings me into the most 
delightful relationship with other wives and mothers." 
MARION FOSTER WASHBURNE, Editor The Mothers’ Magazine. 


"The interest shown in “ Household Hygiene’ has proved to me 
that there is among housewives an intelligent desire to know that they 
may act. They seize upon the opportunity with avidity, and the 
questions that come would need a University Faculty to answer in 
all details. ‘The Socratic method of education still seems to be 


valuable, if there is only a Socrates, or many!" 
S. MARIA ELLIOTT, Simmons College. 


"This is the first experience that either Miss Sprague or myself 
has had with correspondence teaching and we have been happily 
surprised by the character of the work which the students have done, 
and by the feeling so often expressed by them, that the work of the 
School is meeting a real need.!! 

Professor ISABEL BEVIER, University of Illinois. 

"Many students write that it has made housework go much easier 


to have a new interest in it—old tasks being far less irksome." 
MARGARET E. DODD, S. B. 


"I now realize the possibilities of correspondence work far more 
than when I began. The need of such a School as this becomes 
more and more apparent to me, for there are so many struggling 


along in their homes who cannot be helped in any other way." 
ANNA BARROWS, Columbia University, 


COMPLETE COURSE IN HOME ECONOMICS 


This course covers, systematically, in an interesting and practical way, the new, 


“Profession of Home-making”’ and *‘Art of Right Living.” 


It is divided into to forty 


lesson pamphlets of fifty to one hundred pages each. 
REGULAR ORDER IN WHICH THE LESSONS ARE TAKEN 


FOOD SUBJECTS 


(1) Chery of the Household 
Partselel is Lit: 

(3) Principles of Cookery 
Parts Liebe hy 

(5) Food and Dietetics 
Parts I, II, Ill, IV. 

(7) Household Management 
Parts I, II, III, 1V. 


HOUSEHOLD ART 
(9) The Heuse—Its Plan, Deco- 
ration and Care, I, If, III. 
(10) Textiles and Clothing 
Parts I, II, Il. 


HEALTH SUBJECTS 


(2) Household Bacteriol dgy 
Parts I, II, II. 

(4) Household Hygiene 
Parts I, IT, Lil. 

(6) Personal Hygiene 
Parts I, II, {11, IV. 

(8) Home Care of the Sick 
Paris I, I, M1. 


CHILDREN 


(11) Care of Children 
Parts I, II, III. 

(12) Study of Child Life 
Parts I, II, III. 


PARTIAL LIST OF INSTRUCTORS 


ISABEI BEVIER, Ph. M. 
Professor of Household Science, 
University of Illinois 

8. MARIA ELLIOTT q 
Instructor in Home Economics, 
Simmons Coliege, Boston 

BERTHA M. TERRILL, A. M. 
Professor of Home Economics, 
University of Vermont 

KATE HEINZ WATSON 
Formerly Instructor Lewis Insti- 
tute, Chicago 

MARGARET E. DODD, S. B. 
Graduate Mass. inst. of Technology 

ANNA BARROWS 
Teacher of Cookery, Columbia 
University; Director Chautauqua 
School of Cookery 


ALFRED C. COTTON, A. M., M. D. 
Professor Diseases of Children, 
Rush Medical College, University 
of Chicago 

ALICE PELOUBET NORTON,M.A. 
Assistant Professcr of Home Eco- 
nomics, University of Chicago 

MARION FOSTER WASHBURNE 
Editor of ‘‘The Mothers’ Magazine” 

AMY ELIZABETH POPE 
Instructor in Nursing, 
terian Hospital, N. Y. City 

CHARLOTTE M. GIBBS, A. B. 
Director of Household’ Art, Uni- 
versity of Iilinois 

MAURICE Lr BOSQUET, S. B. 
Director American School of Home 
Economics, Chicago 


Presby- 


BOARD OF TRUSTEES 


Mrs. A. COURTENAY NEVILLE 
President of the Board; First Chair- 
man Home Economics Committee, 
G. F. W. C. 

Mrs. ELLEN M. HENROTIN 
Organizer and Honorary President 
General Federation Women’s Clubs 

Mrs. FREDERIC W. SCHOFF 
President National Congress of 
Mothers 

Mrs. LINDA HULL LARNED 
Past President National Household 
Economics Association 

Miss ALICE RAVENHILL 
Commissioner of the British Gov- 
ernment on Domestic Science in 

the United States 


Mrs. MARY HINMAN ABEL 
Editor ‘Journal of Home Eco- 
nomics’’; Author U. 8. Government 
Bulletins 

Miss MARIA PARLOA 
Founder of the Original Cooking 
School in Boston; Author, etc. 

Mrs. J. A. KIMBERLY 
Vice-President of National House< 
hold Economics Association 

Mrs. JOHN HOODLESS 
Government Supt. of Domestic 
Science of the Province of Ontario 

Mrs. WALTER McNAB MILLER 
Past Chairman of the Food-Sétita- 
tion Committee, G. F. W.C. 


COMMENDATION ON THE COURSE IN BOOK FORM: 
THE OUTLOOK 


"It is true that the management of the home and the care of the family may now 
rightly be called both a business and a profession. Looking at the subject in this 
light, che volumes of this library may be regarded as the tools and formulae for 
carrying on the work in a systematized and intelligent manner. * * * A wise 
discrimination has been exercised in the choice of the authors of the lessons, for these 
writers are recognized authorities and special students in the various fields with which 
they deal. In all cases, simplicity of statement and clarity * * * brevity with- 
out sacrificing completeness, are qualities carefully sought for." 


THE INDEPENDENT 


"Fach of these series of lessons is written by an expert—one possessing special 
knowledge on the subject concerning which he or she writes. * * * The 
volumes are handy and are well illustrated and contain an immense amount of in- 
formation. Things that it must take an old housekeeper years of experience to learn, 
the young housekeeper may have here under her hand at the very beginning of her 
regime. 


GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 


"Practically all the material needed by the home-maker who wants to know 
about the inside and the outside of her house and the health of those within it is to 
be found in these twelve volumes. The books are easy to read and scientific with. 
out being technical." 


BOSTON COOKING SCHOOL MAGAZINE 
"This is the first time that an attempt has been made to gather together the 
whole broad subject of home economics into one correlated series of volumes. They 
give an epitome of the kind and scope of instructions given on this subject at the 
present time." 


THE CRAFTSMAN 


"Altogether the course seems to be widely useful in its scope, and very straight. 
forward and practical in its work." 


BOSTON TRANSCRIPT 
"These well printed and liberally illustrated volumes present a course of reading 
and study that shows to what extent the profession of home-making and art of living 
make for self-culture and the practical ends of our daily existence." 


CHICAGO TRIBUNE 


"Each volume is prepared by practical instructors, speaking with authority in 
their particular lines. They are well illustrated and are calculated to diffuse a great 
body of necessary information to those interested in household advancement." 


IOWA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH BULLETIN 


"We most heartily commend these courses to all persons interested in healthy 
homes and the development“ a vigorous people—mentally, physically and, as a 
consequence, morally," 


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Purpose of the Course 


O make housekeeping an inspiring profession, instead 
of deadening drudgery. 


O make the daily work in the home of fascinating in- 
terest instead of monotonous labor. 


O make housekeeping easier and simpler by utilizing 
modern science in the home. 


O make the household money go further, that the 
higher things of life may be included. 


RS preserve and increase health, and thereby promote 
happiness and prosperity. 


ape develop the children—mentally, morally and physi- 
cally—to their finest possibilities. 


O effect the conservation and improvement of the 
American home. 


Te raise ideals of American home-making. 


— American School of Home Economics. 


NOTE—The 100-page booklet, “The Profession of Home-Making,’ vives 
details of the home-study domestic science courses. It’s free. Bulletins 
“The Up-to-Date Home,” “Free Hand Cooking” and “Food Values,” 10c 
each. ,Address—A.S. H.E., 506 W. 69th St., Chicago, Ill. 


